Welcome everyone to American Girls the podcast. This is the show we're reliving the American

Girl series book by book except here on Patreon where we're basically doing whatever we want that we think

lives in the world of our show. I'm Mary. I'm still Allison.

And today we are gathered to talk about a truly good book by Melinda Lowe called

last night at the Telegraph Club. This is a lovely. a this book talk. Was this a listener recommendation or a merry recommendation? I will say it was actually

a book talk recommendations. So you know in the pandemic, like the greatest gift of it to me, like I should say was my marriage, I'm also gonna say Tik-Tok coming into my life.

Yes. And I now get a lot of book talk or like people recommending books they enjoy

and so this was a book that showed up on multiple

Tik-Toc videos and so I looked it up and I was like whoa like this sounds really incredible so I kind of just bought it

sight unseen and at the minute I read it I texted you and was like we got to do this book.

Yeah I'm really glad that we read this and it's definitely not a short book.

It comes in over 400 pages so it's not like some of our quicker, dear America features, but it's wonderful.

It's worth your time and I don't know if you have a summary that you want to jump into or we can just start chatting about it.

Yeah, this is a pretty layered book. It did come out just a few months ago, but just to give people the lay of the land.

So this is from the publisher's summary.

That book, it was about two women

and they fell in love with each other.

And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her

that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun.

Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Seventeen-year-old Lily can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the

moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar

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